On Sunday 14 June 2020 08:30, Reuben Staley via agora-discussion wrote:

> On 2020-06-13 22:55, Reuben Staley wrote:
>
> > On 2020-06-13 22:27, Rebecca via agora-discussion wrote:
> >
> > > I personally dislike the new format as gmail does NOT give agoran
> > > messages
> > > to me in fixed width, thus I need to access the archives to read messages
> > > like this (which I forgot my password to years ago). I overall prefer
> > > less
> > > compactness in reports as I don't like the extreme misalignment that
> > > everything comes into my client with. But I'm aware that there's
> > > probably a
> > > way to fix this and it's just a me problem.
> > > I am open to suggestions if you have a different way to display this.
> > > I'm not going to have nine tables as big as the current one, but I am
> > > open to suggestions.
>
> Okay, so after I complained at you guys I realized that my table system
> is really similar to markdown's, which GitHub pages can interpret and
> turn into HTML.
>
> I wasn't planning on doing HTML reports for this office, but I had
> finally found an excuse to use awk for something, so whatever.
>
> Wow, that was a lot of boring words.
>
> TL;DR: https://agoranomic.org/Treasuror/test
>
> Tell me that's not beautiful. You can't!
>
> Also if any nerds are interested in the awk script I wrote I also
> uploaded that too okay bye
>
> https://github.com/AgoraNomic/Treasuror/blob/master/markdown.awk
>
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Nice indeed! I also just noticed your plaintext tables are rather similar to 
reStructuredText's simple tables [0], if you want to try something that works 
with the current format.

[0]: 
https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#simple-tables

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